Ants Quotes - Page 3

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains.

The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.

Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

Never have I had such assistants to disrobe me, and never have I put off my clothes before such a company

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.

All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them.

Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth as well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.

The physician is only nature's assistant.

I know there is no straight road No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth Of intersecting crossroads

When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

The Past is dead, and has no resurrection; but the Future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us even in anticipation. The Past is, in many things, the foe of mankind; the Future is, in all things, our friend. In the Past is no hope; The Future is both hope and fruition. The Past is the text-book of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.

A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.

I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what's coming to the boil.

David was the last one we would have chosen to fight the giant, but he was chosen of God.

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

I find it striking that the quality of the urban habitat of homo sapieans is so weakly researched compared to the habitats of gorillas, elephants, and Bengal tigers and panda bears in China…you hardly see anything on the habitat of man in the urban environment.

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.